Project Manager II - Engineering

#WeAreONEOK Fortune 500 Company

Leading midstream service provider. Safety first. Sustainable operations. Environmentally responsible. Employee focused.

Job Summary

The Project Manager II will play a critical leadership role in delivering large-scale, high-impact pipeline and facility projects, ensuring alignment with ONEOK's operational standards and strategic goals. Candidate must have prior project management experience leading at least one DOT 192 / 195 regulated pipeline or facility project with a budget exceeding $50 million. Ideal candidates will have successfully managed multiple projects with budgets over $100 million. Foundational responsibilities include ensuring that project milestones and deadlines are consistently met, providing regular and transparent progress updates, and demonstrating the courage to communicate issues or delays as they arise. The candidate will be accountable for establishing and managing all project contracts and purchase orders, ensuring that all work is executed in strict accordance with the terms of those agreements. Success in this role will be defined by the candidate's ability to build strong, high-performing teams with clearly defined expectations and decision rights, foster a project culture that encourages economic discipline and entrepreneurial mindset, consistently communicate predictable financial and schedule health, and proactively mitigate financial risk throughout the project lifecycle.

Job Profile Summary

Directs and performs an advanced level of planning, monitoring and managing engineering projects from initiation through completion. Lead project planning, resourcing, staffing, supply and subcontract management, progress reporting, troubleshooting, and people management. Ensure project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule and cost. Projects are typically intermediate growth projects. Monitor performance and recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions. Lead internal and external resources and communicate throughout the company as well as with external vendors, contractors and customers. This role requires a blend of interpersonal management and technical skills necessary to achieve the desired project outcome.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Directs project activities demonstrating a skilled level to deliver project accomplishments inclusive of plant and process facility design, pipeline design, construction, operation and maintenance projects, measurement, regulation and control facilities, gas treating and compressor facilities, product storage, pumping, loading and handling facilities, SCADA, DCS and PLC control systems, processing equipment including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, coolers, etc.
• Manage the review, and dissemination of necessary information related to engineering services, scope definition, estimating, scheduling, design, preparation of bid instructions and bidding, procurement, construction, record keeping, right-of-way, and environmental activities to project team members
• Develop a risk analysis model for a typical project from a review and assessment of project risks and opportunities. Distinguish and assess the project risks and opportunities. Develop simulation models with a Monte Carlo simulation
• Integrate key disciplines into a plan for asset development for a typical project. Manage project development in compliance with project standards and procedures. Integrate a comprehensive plan for asset development. Facilitate agreement on data needed to progress the project. Distinguish key performance indexes, exclusions, constraints and assumptions necessary to prepare a project initiation document. Generate program objectives, critical success factors and ensure projects align to these. Develop project execution plan for large and / or complex projects and develop detailed project contingency plans
• Create a detailed project scope of work and execute it utilizing change management procedures and monthly progress reports. Create a detailed project scope of work that addresses key project elements and drivers. Execute and control the scope of a project using the project plans, monthly reports and control estimate. Facilitate process safety reviews associated with MOC
• Develop and manage optimal project solutions that maximize the economic value added of the project over the life of the project within budgetary and resource constraints
• Develop cost estimates and select, implement and execute cost control procedures for typical project. Account for the development of cost estimates, contract strategies, construction, quality assurance, including establishing pricing for equipment and materials, and labor productivity for engineering and construction. Assure alignment of cost estimate and overall project schedule. Develop cost estimates, probabilistic cost risk assessment, and contingency plans to create a project budget and cash flow estimate for a typical project. Validate estimates with peers; perform benchmarking. Assess cost impact of scope changes
• Manage complex project activities to include plant and process facility design, pipeline design, construction, operation and maintenance projects, measurement, regulation and control facilities, gas treating and compressor facilities, product storage, pumping, loading and handling facilities, SCADA, DCS and PLC control systems, processing equipment including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, coolers, etc.
• Develop and implement a stakeholder management plan for a typical project. Study Right of Way plans and assess critical reviews and easement coverage. Implement a stakeholder management plan and monitor / adjust strategies to increase influence and build key relationships
• Develop an overall project schedule by integrating schedules from individual project contractors. Use the integrated schedule to produce progress and productivity reports. Verify schedule progress, by reviewing discipline schedules. Ensure contractor compliance with schedule update criteria. Assess schedule impact of trends
• Build successful, high performing teams utilizing elements of planning and performance management. Maintain high standards of performance within a department, monitoring performance metrics against a target. Respond to obstacles to performance, taking ownership and accountability of proposed solutions. Lead project team by creating a clear project vision, obtaining necessary resources to handle projects including the hiring of employees, contractors, and vendors, and purchasing of necessary equipment as well as allocating applicable decision-making authority and responsibility to team members
• Execute the communication process. Engage in complex communication activities, and monitor organizational standards of verbal communication. Manage the policies and procedures applicable to the use of online communication platforms.
• Organize routine or scheduled meetings, chairing critical meetings where necessary. Facilitate the requirements for multi-day meetings. Interact with direct and indirect reports, corporate personnel, public officials, contractors, customers, and civic organizations on issues including general engineering activities, employee issues, public projects, and project scheduling
• Verify and support relationship building at all levels. Conduct networking and social initiatives to foster the growth of interpersonal relationships. Utilize alternative methods to enhance relationships within complex settings. Influence others using planned, creative approaches that appeal to particular needs
• Evaluate projects and identify where change is needed. Seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches for project completion and refocus team members if changes are needed
• Provide technical and engineering assistance to other departments, management, governmental and regulatory agencies, company attorneys, industry groups, and others on matters related to projects and operations, policies, procedures, contracts, material selection, and governmental / regulatory rules, regulations, and activities

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